Like a Swiss clock the erupting noise from the street woke me up at precisely 7:30AM. Went to a cafe nearby for breakfast before I ventured out to the temple district of Kathmandu. Later I took a Tuk Tuk to the other end of the town, Patan. This is the oldest part of Kathmandu and has an extraordinary Nepalese architecture as well as museums and thousands of little vendors in alleyways like labyrinths, selling all kinds of crafts. It's a place where you still see women going to the public wells for water and monks roaming the streets in their orange robes.
After sunset I let me drive back one last time through the virtually lawless evening traffic of Pollutmandu
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Praezise wie eine schweizer Uhr weckte mich der morgendliche Strassenlaerm puenktlich um 7:30 Uhr. Ging zu einem Cafe in der Naehe fruehstuecken bevor ich mich auf zum Tempelbezirk machte. Spaeter nahm ich mir ein Tuk Tuk und liess mich ans andere Ende der Stadt fahren, nach Patan. Der Stadtteil ist der Aelteste und beruehmt fuer seine alte interessante nepalesische Architektur, Museen und tausende von kleinen Haendlern, die in den labyrintartigen Gassen ihre Handarbeiten verkaufen. Es ist ein Ort, wo man selbst heute noch Frauen beim Wasserschoepfen in den oeffentlichen Brunnen zuschauen kann und Moenche in ihren orangefarbenen Roben durch die Strassen wandern.
Nach dem Sonnenuntergang liess ich mich ein letztes Mal durch den gesetzlosen Abendverkehr von Luftverschmutzmandu zurrueck fahren.
Through the Labyrinth of Ancient Patan
Friday, November 23, 2012
Kathmandu, Central Region, Nepal
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Danny
2012-11-30
swiss clocks are not noisy and then never ring before 8am
Danny
2012-11-30
I thought you lived long enough in Pollutangeles to be used to that stuff